Kung Pao Chicken: This highly addictive stir-fried chicken continues to be one of the most popular Chinese dishes in America as the succulent, complex sauce of salty, sweet, sour, and spicy flavors is hard to pass up.

A double-height mille-feuille, which traditionally consists of three tiers of puff pastry and two intervening layers of pastry cream. Start to finish, preparation time is about 40 hours. - Photographed by Eric Boman, Vogue, December 2014